Mark Davis Quotes

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

The fact that you needed to know was not known at the time that the now known need to know, was known. Therefore, those that needed to advise and inform the Home Secretary perhaps felt the information he needed as to whether to inform the highest authority of the known information was not yet known and therefore there was no authority for the authority to be informed because the need to know was not, at that time, known or needed.

We always fight the last war.

I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know.

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.

For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.

I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines.

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

I think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings.

I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.

Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

A man prepared has half fought the battle.